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From: Nancy McGough <nancym@ii.com>
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: Infinite Ink
Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:18:03 -0400
Message-ID: <ii.842983360@shellx>

adler@pulsar.wku.edu (Allen Adler) writes:
>There is one thing that precludes it: publishers routinely require
>that an author sign away all of his/her rights to his/her work.
>The publisher has all the rights and the author is no longer
>free to reproduce his own work.

They don't require it, they request it.  This type of thing
is negotiable.  Given how little they are paying you, you
should be able to cross that part out of the contract and
initial it and have them initial it and make it clear that
they only get first rights.  I have some links to info 
about this at:

 http://www.jazzie.com/ii/writing.html

Especially useful is Trevor Lawrence's bricolage.

Good luck,
Nancy never-give-away-electronic-rights-unless-you-are-payed-really-well McGough

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